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Notable numbers: Nose jobs, NC religiosity and never-vote-for-Trumpers

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
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10 Where North Carolina ranks in the list of most-religious states

73 The percentage of North Carolinians who say they believe in God with absolute certainty

66 The percentage who say they pray daily

39 The percentage who go to at least one religious service a week

1 Where Alabama ranks in U.S. religiosity

50 Where New Hampshire ranks

9.2 The percentage of income North Carolinians making less than $18,000 spent in state and local taxes in 2015

5.3 The percentage of income North Carolina’s 1-percenters (those making more than $376,000) spent

3 The number of years since North Carolina allowed its state Earned Income Tax Credit that helps low-wage workers to end

0 The number of other states with a state EITC that have allowed it to expire in the last 30 years

55 The percentage of voters interviewed by YouGov who say they would never vote for Donald Trump, up from 51 percent in December

47 The percentage who said that about Ben Carson, up from 39 percent

46 The percentage who said that about Ted Cruz, up from 41 percent

44 For John Kasich, up from 33

39 For Marco Rubio, up from 35

1 Where the village of Marvin, population 5,579 in 2010, ranks in terms of median income in North Carolina among cities with more than 1,000 residents

$160,093 The median income in the Union County town

$46,693 The median income for all of North Carolina in 2014

16.3 The percentage of civil cases in the Eastern District of North Carolina court that are more than three years old

5.1 The percentage of U.S. workers who are unauthorized immigrants

10 The percentage of workers in Nevada who are unauthorized, the nation’s highest

7 The percentage of K-12 students in the United States who had at least one unauthorized immigrant parent in 2012

79 The percentage of those students who were born in the United States

18 The percentage of students in Nevada who have at least one unauthorized immigrant parent, the highest in the nation

279,143 The number of breast augmentation surgeries in the United States in 2014

222,051 The number of liposuctions

217,979 The number of nose jobs

1,356 The number of buttock implants and fat graftings in 2000

4,767 The number in 2014, a 252 percent increase

45,792 The number of mail-in requests as of Thursday for absentee ballots for the N.C. primary

10,835 The number of votes cast

85 The percentage of Americans who say protecting the future of Social Security is very or extremely important

81 The percentage who say reducing unemployment is very or extremely important

72 The percentage who say that reducing poverty is very or extremely important

85 The percentage of Democrats who felt that way about poverty

62 The percentage of Republicans

This story was originally published March 4, 2016 at 5:26 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Nose jobs, NC religiosity and never-vote-for-Trumpers."

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